I experimented a little more here so I setup a simple flex app that uses ubuntu font - format ttf.
Then I created an swf font with the following command. fontswf.bat -a "Ubuntu Bold" -b C:\dev\apache-flex\falcon\compiler.tests\functional-tests\f\mxml\assets\Ubuntu-Regular.ttf Then I replaced the @font-face url property from ttf to swf and run falcon to compile the app. But it looks like it's not using the ubuntu font even it's now a swf file. So I tried to debug it and find the code where falcon parses @font-face and reads the font source. But for me looks like it's not implemented yet. I found that in class org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.css.CSSFontFace the two methods aren't implemented. getSourceType() getSourceValue() Gordon do you know more about that? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for help. Cyrill On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Actually, I am suggesting writing enough code to not require the Adobe font > jars anymore. First, it complicates the install, second, it is one more > dependency on Adobe, third, it requires everyone to re-tool their > application build scripts, making it another reason not to switch. > > The backup or interim plan would be to leverage the Adobe font jars by using > code from MXMLC. > > Either way, the transcoding should be stored in a "meta" file and simply > injected at link time. In the end, it is just a DefineFontXXX in the SWF. > > But if others think our customers won't mind having that extra step then > I'll go with that. > > -Alex > > > On 11/12/12 8:23 PM, "Om" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I agree that the ttf to swf transcoding does not have to happen during >> compile time. We could build tooling separate from the compiler to make >> this conversion easier. Such tooling can take advantage if the fontswf >> utility from Adobe. >> >> At some point, when we write our own transcoder, we can revisit the >> question of whether we want to do that during compile time or not. >> >> Thanks, >> Om >> On Nov 12, 2012 7:42 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >>> I don't recommend this for a new compiler because font transcoding is so >>> slow that it should really be done only once, before compilation. >>> >>> - Gordon >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Gordon Smith >>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:41 PM >>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Subject: RE: [FALCON] Fonts Question >>> >>> Alex is suggesting writing a transcoder tor Falcon that uses Adobe's >>> proprietary font JARs. He says this is what Apache's version of the old >>> compiler has. >>> >>> - Gordon >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Cyrill Zadra [mailto:cyrill.za...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 6:42 PM >>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question >>> >>> So basically for flash we've got following options: >>> ** create swf fonts from the ttf fonts and rewrite the mustella tests to >>> use the swf fonts >>> ** write an own transcoder from ttf to swf For html we don't need anything >>> like that because it already supports a bunch off font format like ttf, svg. >>> >>> Did I got that correct? >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm not sure. The engineer who did the font embedding for Falcon left >>>> Adobe recently. >>>> >>>> We felt that the compiler shouldn't be doing font embedding because it >>>> is inefficient to transcode the font more than once. >>>> >>>> - Gordon >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] >>>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:02 PM >>>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >>>> Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/12/12 1:46 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Then you would have a compiler that you couldn't distribute because >>>>> it required Adobe JARs. >>>> No, that's the way Apache Flex distributes MXMLC today. Everything >>>> compiles and runs, but embedding doesn't work if you haven't gone out >>>> separately and downloaded the Adobe font jars. >>>> >>>> I'm just wondering if how hard it would be to re-purpose some of that >>>> code from MXMLC into Falcon. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> - Gordon >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alex Harui >>>> Flex SDK Team >>>> Adobe Systems, Inc. >>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >>>> >>>> >>> > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
